what. was done under the how come that was done was by the associated press which broke the story the associated press did some amazing investigative journalism for which they won the pulitzer prize the judge decided that they were the ones who published not the actual survey and so you know you have it in one fell swoop you have not only the justification for racial and religious profiling but it impacts on the press in fact on the associated press and the idea that the press should be watchdogs of the government that is shocking that they would actually go as far as claiming that the harm wasn't the surveillance system itself it was just the press of the fact that surveillance was happening i mean what do you think about that claim. well i think this is a completely specious claim i think that it's this ruling absolutely sends the wrong message it sends a green light not only to the n.y.p.d. to continue these practices of surveillance but to police agencies all over the country this week and even with absolute impunity might lead to civil liberties off

them spent i want to read from the denby a document that the judge produced this is what he said he said quote the police could not have bought it new jersey for muslim terrorist activities without monitoring the muslim community itself the motive for the program was not solely to discriminate against muslims but rather to find muslim terrorists hiding among ordinary mall fighting muslims which is just so deeply racist you know it's a cultural racism that says that people who practice islam are sort of programmed. to inspect and it's easy to do the mindset of the n.y.p.d. they released a document in two thousand and seven cold terrorism in the west the homegrown threat in which they argue that there is a four step process of radicalization in which if you are just a young muslim man you are already at stage one then you become religious you stop smoking drinking and you start down to religion you're on the track and once you

pop ice age right and this is really such a simplistic and problematic notion of what i people junction by and said frank you this is cultural racism martin is a former republican congressman a bush appointees have been removed from a racketeering and murder case in the past for his lack of impartiality so concern has passed how much do you think martinez personal politics played into the ruling well i'm sure a kind of not to you because there are at least two other schools of thought to be well the republicans school of thought that was a conservative school of thought tends to be very simplistic in the way it mirrors the muslim terrorist enemy threat. and i have no doubt that that made a huge role in this how was the n.y.p.d. justified and spying on locations completely outside of its jurisdiction yes well frankly this entire program is not illegal because a cia agent was responsible for setting this program up so first of all the cia

should not be involved in any kind of domestic spying on their sought so there is so many ways in which you know what the n.y.p.d. should be doing the cia should be doing has been completely irate in this case and you have accused was actually brought by a man by the name of assad is the. natural am and you know i believe went off to fight in the iraq war but then he comes back and finds this beautiful office space around so you know the logic is we'll send you to go fight for oil and so forth when you come back you're part of a suspect community. leave a bowl or you mentioned kind of the message the clear message that this ruling sends i mean expand on that what kind of precedent do you think that it will set for future widespread surveillance by law enforcement agencies across the country well you know you have there's already been since two thousand and two widespread programs of the sort the n.y.p.d. is not the one institution the f.b.i.

various you know no good police departments and been involved in this but the key to keep in mind is that you just put it stands even though this program has been in the facts instead of thousand and two there has not been one seemed to lead related to terrorist activity level of terrorism conviction and actually this is consistent with nationwide statistics in the ten years since nine eleven off the one hundred fifty thousand murders in the united states most americans in the response were probably thirty three of them right and so the question is why so many resources spent by police departments giddy at the right. by national security agency in film on so amazing american well when it comes down to i think really is fact we have seen the massive development group not only the vehemency but a national security state that's relying on dislodging and these nine eleven attack

on know them to be more global terror everywhere so we have to run its national security not a monkey. it's national security speech isn't about keeping us the right to think about what americans die from being dive bomber often from things not i was featured in injuries forty five thousand americans die each year not go back to help get the right there's no war on people profits outguess systems what it is i want i'm like in the next book that i'm writing it's really about national you already see things got the you are also ones with. and just to find out national security team is about creating the enemy and creating programs that go up by the way not just some americans but all the sensor data that they alexion of new york city mayor bill de blasio has made a tangible difference and both the approach of minority surveillance and stop infrastructure if i know a lot of people are kind of disappointed is so far. yeah i mean the retarded me i

think it made some true friends because de blasio around the clock who when he not ok to inject a stop and frisk but he also promised them in new york city that he would curtail in you know to prevent my program and only pacific where there was actually intelligence he was sanctioned this time suzanne but to the best of my knowledge on the nightly domini think about it and the one thing that he has done is actually we . the new police commissioner know who you know you know who this man will be able bracken who he was the chief will be any yet why was that actually the number of interest cases founded by fifty percent was the most he was thought of people with you know he had any of those and you don't program it was called a community not the program just going to do exactly the same thing when most americans didn't come to fruition because there was

a huge make up right people come are professor rutgers university author islamophobia and the politics of empire always a pleasure having you on thank you. so ground you guys will break down the real well for a problem in this country. you will frightening your premiums by the scales crawl the russian intervention create a new study of the atmosphere. so i think the last man to want to fly to will stop the week because he believes that we chose well first of all of course elmo brought come in he doesn't represent the e.u. i mean his comments are wholly unhelpful of course i mean mr yanukovych which is the rule we still democracy going downhill very quickly in ukraine do you say where you live even though you indians mission to save democracy and in ukraine i mean let's look at it from the other way it's not the european union there's

a demand there here it's the it's the ukraine that is demanded from the european union for many years a closer relationship both politically and economically i mean the european union does not go around looking for countries to save. my marriage join me. in that impartial and financial commentary interviews and much much. only on the bus and on. the interview.

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pockets on the heels of obama signing a farm bill that will cut funding to food stamps by eight billion dollars a new report by good jobs first has exposed the absurd amount of taxpayer dollars are going to provide welfare not for the poor but for wealthy corporations of course corporate welfare is not really mentioned on the corporate press as a problem but i wonder why couldn't have anything to do with the fact that it's owned by five corporations credit well the report is aptly titled subsidizing the corporate one percent revealing that state and local governments have shelled out at least one hundred ten billion dollars to companies doing business in the us of a the study compiles figures over several years analyzing the many ways these companies are enjoying special treatment which will come in the form of everything from utility discounts to cash giveaways in theory the government justifies corporate subsidies to incentivize business growth and to support startup industries and if applied in that way i'm not entirely against it but the stats and the lack of transparency paint

a much different picture to the majority of these subsidies are going to only a select few of the richest of the rich companies in the country so which mega corporations are benefiting the most first off there is dow chemical at fifty seven billion dollars company that's been exploiting us energy. policy for years was surpassed any other corporation on the list by the sheer number of subsidies it's received four hundred and sixteen in total adding up to one point four billion dollars next up digital science company intel which manufactures aerospace components made number three on the list which fifty eight subsidies totally and three point eight billion dollars or take aluminum company which has taken ninety one subsidies totaling five point six billion dollars in fact the amount that outflow receives in government handouts far exceeds their annual profits as journalist david johnston points out on the basis of its pretax income for the last four years these subsidies amount all the pretax profits can expect for the next

one hundred and eighty nine years wow so this company is essentially running on government cash nice also interesting that alcoa makes no public mention of these massive subsidies its annual shareholders meeting finally topping the list at number one cash cow recipient is boeing with one hundred thirty seven subsidies totaling a staggering thirteen billion dollars now boeing is notorious for holding jobs hostage while states fight each other for its contracts this thirteen billion dollars in handouts reflects the amazing deals lucky boeing has clearly made with states like washington and south carolina keep in mind that boeing is the number who provider for america's military machine which i don't think is an industry that deserves financial breaks. guys the subsidies in this report are often in the form of tax abatement wondered which underscores exactly how much burden falls on average taxpayers because many of these massive corporations are relying on

government welfare for profit employees that actually earn the money from their sales an organization called citizens for tax justice points out that at the end of the day is tax burden hits the poor especially hard adding that quote in every state low income taxpayers pay more as a share of income in the wealthiest one percent remember this report doesn't even take into account federal subsidies which highlights the need for more transparency on the issue of corporate welfare so you tell me which makes more sense continuing to bicker about food stamps or addressing the same corporate welfare that actually perpetuates poverty all in the name of job creation. the choice. was to go. america's one of the only so-called represented democracies in the world that is

utterly dominated by two parties the democrats and the republicans the left versus the right it's all manufactured paradigm when in reality both parties are more in line of the each other and the majority of americans are in line with them what's even more frustrating is how hard it is to break through the political system as an independent or third party candidate without being completely marginalized by the media when one woman is taking that chance her name is marianne williamson and she's running as an independent for california's thirty third district but she's also been a new york times best selling author on the subject of spirituality and self-improvement four different times she joins me now to talk about her transition from self-help guru to politician thanks so much for coming on. thank you very much for having me marian you're primarily known as a spiritual teacher and author not exactly something. someone associated with politics so why decide to jump into the political ring. well isn't that the problem though that anybody is not associated with politics isn't part of the problem that

we have a kind of political class and politics has become a kind of spectator sport everybody should feel that they're part of that show even eisenhower said politics should be the part time profession of every american citizen a very good point i totally agree with you it's time to take it out of the inside baseball and i hope exactly an imposed op ed you wrote recently entitled a funny thing happened on the way to the primary i want to read a quote from him we don't have an open political system we have a political elite ruled by political parties that decides who gets to play whoever is playing however nice the person is part of the same conversation we've been having for years the stillborn our rhetoric that promises to do little more than perpetuate the system as it is i cannot agree more with how have you experienced this phenomenon firsthand is someone running outside of the two party structure. well you know i think more than anything else we just have to disinter all ourselves as lincoln would say it's just a thought we have you know we have a two party too awfully as you're well aware and it has

a choke hold on the system and it's sucking the oxygen out of our public discourse but there's no need for it i think americans just need to be taught some of our own history there's no mention of political parties in our founding documents george washington warned us against them in his farewell address abolition did not come from the major party suffrage did not come from the major party the civil rights movement did not come from the major party the parties although they certainly have their role to play but there yet they should be here to serve us we shouldn't be having to filter all of our thoughts through their idiology and you know j.f.k. said we should be seeking not the democratic answer or the republican answer but the right answer and at a time today as you mentioned yourself when the more disturbing news is how similar they are compared to how this. they are i think it's time for some voices that just don't buy into the idea that we have to be one or the other and you describe yourself as a lifelong democrat you're running as an independent why did you choose to distance

yourself from the party and what do you see as the most fundamental flaw of the left wing establishment. but i don't think of myself as really distancing from the party i think the party has distanced itself from me i think if you look at someone like bernie sanders here he acts in many cases more like a democrat as i think of a democrat acting than many democrats do and so what's happened today is the progressives have this codependent relationship with the democratic party they keep getting more corporatist and in many cases more militarist and progressive say oh ok and enable them one more time one thing they have to give to the tea party they're not in a codependent relationship with the republican party and i think it's really important for progressives who are treated like the democratic party in too many cases not all cases but in too many like you know we we come to when there's an election we ignore you till the next one i just think many of us can't tell the line anymore i just know that i can't but i would caucus with democrats you know

like i said i am a bobby kennedy democrat and it's hard it's like well stone said i'm from the democratic wing of the democratic party it's hard for me as a democrat to find too much comfort anymore within the purview of the democratic party you know i'm open i hope that this election you know one of the reasons i hope i win app is because i think it would really perhaps inspire a movement by which the democrats get their soul back not the people but the party sure i heard some people say that if nixon were running today you'd be the most liberal democrat i hope there it's pretty shocking how far right everything is kind of shifted let's talk about your fund raising efforts according to open secrets you've already raised over three hundred thousand dollars far surpassing your other opponents how we've been able to do this. it's grass where. you know part of the way americans are locked out today and that's why i'm running this campaign the average american is locked out of what should be considered the minimum in terms of access to political influence educational opportunity and economic opportunity and

the way that works of course with this legalized system of bribery and corruption we have especially since citizens united by which money forces wield such disproportionate influence over our political system compared to the average citizen is how expensive it is to run for office if you don't either have wealth or have access to wealth so i looked at my four hundred thousand names on facebook and my two hundred thousand on twitter because i i have been writing books you know my first book came out in one thousand nine hundred two so i've been out there for a while and i thought to myself looking at my social media. numbers i thought well if everybody sends me five dollars i could do this and my it's a grassroots campaign and i've announced publicly i'm not taking pac money i'm not taking lobbyist money and my average donation is fifty nine dollars. that's how it should be and. we're almost out of time i just want to get to

a couple more things that is incredible but you're saying that you're still not being treated as a legitimate candidate even though you've made a lot of money through grassroots funders and i mean what other factors are leading to your dismissal. well you know what the fact is our is this sort of media political elite but it's ok that's what i would if i were the democrats today my strategy would be to ignore me and pretend that i don't exist so you know i can't blame them. i just and the media you know i think when henry waxman first announced his retirement it's all horse races and it's all in the horse race is that the democrat of that democrat but you know part of running with any real principle is that the horse race is that what you're doing this for and you know the only the only the only thing that matters is what the voters have to say on june third on our primary june third so i think a lot of people are coming to understand that i would not be a threat to the democratic party i don't think anybody sees bernie sanders as

a threat to the democratic party and also people are coming to understand that he doesn't lack power in the senate i think that people here in los angeles are beginning to understand that the election of an independent candidate particularly someone running on the platform of getting the money out of politics would really help create a space an opening a possibility for this kind of a candidacy and a winning candidacy throughout the country and l.a. likes to do things first you know this is a district that doesn't really like same ole same ole anything and people are really responding to the idea that we start new conversations here this is what we do this is why people live in california california this area starts a new conversation it's a national trend within five years and i think that's one of the selling points of this campaign i think it's an exciting idea that we're just not going to be perpetuating the system as it is when all of us know it's not working california codes a lot of things in motion here let's talk about some of the other major points of

your political platform you're on board with several bills that represent a proposed including the meritorious of the use of drones the repeal of the authorization for use of military force i mean as much as i believe in these things these issues seem to be dead in the water on capitol hill how would you get congress to seriously consider them. well listen i'm not naive about what one congresswoman can do particularly first time congress person who particularly now that it's an open seat anybody will be so i'm not naive i wouldn't be going to washington with a magic wand no one would and no one should be able to but on the other hand i think conviction is a force multiplier and particularly as an independent candidate not feeling shackled i think that my hopefully the contribution of my voice both within congress and because i have a national platform of some kind outside of congress as well to use whatever power that i have in terms of audience nationally to talk about these things in

a way that makes more people wake up and more people ask their congress people and their candidates around the country what of what's going on with these drones i don't think the average person even realizes abbi the power of these things they will they can know who you slept with what you just logged onto on your computer what room you just walked into and they are coming and you know the same this same government that has had to it been forced to acknowledge in a state spying tells us in relation to drones not to worry because they are going to have to adhere to all privacy laws state federal and local americans who listen to this are god following we just need to to continue the buzz it's like you create with your show a lot of voices are out there now i think something's already rumbling and i just believe that these voices need to also be represented in a less ok in a city like mine something is definitely been a revolution of consciousness thanks for being a part of marianne williamson congressional candidate california's district thirty three really appreciate you coming on. thank you that's our show you guys join me

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